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Category: Monthly Themed Blogs

Handwritten cipher on paper.
March 8, 2024March 8, 2024Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn – secrets at the Museum of Freemasonry?

What is secrecy? Writing this blog made me think about why archives created by some organisations are thought of as ‘secret’ whereas […]

March 6, 2024March 6, 2024Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs

Anne Lister: the secret’s out!

From coded whispers about daily tasks to private reflections, come and unravel Anne Lister’s coded musings beyond romantic aspects. This month we […]

January 31, 2024February 26, 2024Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

The Darker Side of the Ferguson Collection: Part Two

A world of scientific experimentation into the supernatural and what makes an “eerie” tale.

January 8, 2024November 11, 2024Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

Highland Archive Centre

A look at the Christmas and Hogmanay traditions taking place in the Scottish Highlands

December 28, 2023February 27, 2024Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs

The Johnstone Twins: A Tale of Festive Illustrations 

Looking at the timeless collaborative illustration work of twin sisters Anne and Janet Johnstone

December 21, 2023February 26, 2024Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs

Pretty Paper – a history of Christmas cards at the Postal Museum archives             

The wonderful journey of the cherished British Christmas card.

Watercolour of Private Skurr, 15 March 1918.
December 1, 2023February 26, 2024Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

The father of plastic surgery case files

The WW1 groundbreaking facial surgeries case files reveal sensitivity and compassion from the medical team.

November 30, 2023December 18, 2023Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

The Practice of Inclusion in the Fulbourn Asylum

As November highlights to us the importance of inclusion, we delve into the records of Fulbourn Hospital (formally Fulbourn Asylum), held by […]

November 19, 2023December 31, 2023Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

The Darker Side of the Ferguson Collection: Part One

With Hallowe’en not long behind us, in the first of a series of spooky-themed articles by the University of Glasgow Archives & […]

October 30, 2023December 31, 2023Blog, Monthly Themed Blogs, Uncategorized

Spooky Happenings in the Greville Family of Warwick Castle Collection

In anticipation of Halloween, we at Explore Your Archive made a ghostly call upon Warwickshire County Record Office to untangle from the […]

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